Chapter 204 204 Chapter - Illusion
204 Chapter - Illusion
Bai Cheng and Leng Ningxue were also startled by the words, and quickly followed her gaze.
But the light shone into the corner, and there was nothing there but a bundle of rotten hay and a broken wine barrel.
This room looked more like a storage room inside a ship.
"What did you see?" Bai Cheng asked.
Yu Nian shrank her neck, shaking her head a little fearfully: "Nothing, maybe I saw it wrong."
They didn't dwell on the issue any longer and went to the door to look at the parchment above it.
It was densely covered with tiny script, detailing the cause of the ship's accident and the bizarre events that followed.
"...The Chris (ship) was a giant vessel built with the most advanced technology of its time, but it was shipwrecked during a voyage due to ocean currents, and all 312 people on board perished... Later, an expedition team found the wreckage of the Chris (ship), but strangely, the hull was perfectly preserved, yet not a single body was found on board... All systems were normal, except for intermittent power, and scattered items in the rooms suggested that personnel had just evacuated, with various calendars and clocks on the ship all pointing to different times..."
"What kind of nonsensical story is this?" Bai Cheng pouted. She had thought there would be some important information on this parchment.
"So, there really is something eerie on this ship," Leng Ningxue also frowned.
The three of them didn't waste any more words, casually tossed the parchment onto the ground, and decisively pushed open the wooden door in front of them.
Emerging from the door was a spacious hall, with a dance floor in the center, three stories high, and various circularly arranged rooms surrounding it.
The door Bai Cheng and the two others had exited from was located on the lowest floor.
It was still pitch black all around, and even with the three flashlight beams crisscrossing, they could only barely illuminate a small area.
"Look there!" Yu Nian exclaimed with a hint of surprise in her voice.
Bai Cheng and Leng Ningxue followed the light from her flashlight and saw ten wooden statues strangely standing on the third-floor ceiling of the space in front of them.
They stood on the edge of the dilapidated wooden railing, as if staring intently at the three people below, motionless.
The scene was somewhat eerie, and Bai Cheng was still examining them with her flashlight, trying to find useful clues.
"The parchment said the ship's power was intermittent... but would such a primitive ship really have electricity?"
Leng Ningxue was a little puzzled, observing her surroundings, and suddenly seemed to discover something, immediately reminding them: "There's a switch by the wall here!"
On a decaying wooden ship... there was actually an ultra-modern switch?
It was a square white single switch, clearly designed to control the ship's lights.
The surrounding rooms all looked the same; at least from the outside, there were no clues.
There were no hints inside this Station, so the three of them pressed the light switch without a second thought.
Click!
The next second, dazzling lights instantly illuminated, and a strange sense of daze suddenly enveloped their hearts, making Bai Cheng feel a layer of unreality.
Blasting music came, deafening.
Colorful neon lights flickered all around, and handsome men and beautiful women on the dance floor were clinking glasses and dancing to the music.
And this place was no longer a dilapidated sight; it was completely an ultra-luxurious modern cruise ship.
Bai Cheng was a bit bewildered by this sudden change of scenery, but the sense of unreality lingering in her heart still existed.
She wanted to turn her head to see how Leng Ningxue and Yu Nian next to her were doing, but she found herself rooted to the spot, unable to move at all.
She couldn't even move her eyeballs.
Leaving aside whether this world had humans and such high-tech conditions, just considering the current situation, Bai Cheng instantly realized that everything in front of her was an illusion.
And she, or rather, the three of them, might just be observers of this illusion.
After confirming that she couldn't move no matter what, Bai Cheng could only quietly watch everything unfold before her.
This place was originally a scene of revelry, neon lights, and extravagance, but it quickly changed with the appearance of a figure in the third-floor corridor.
The man was shouting something in terror, but Bai Cheng couldn't hear any sound.
Then, the lights in the entire dance floor suddenly went out, and everyone seemed to have learned of some great horror and began to flee in a panic.
Subsequently, the ship began to shake violently, as if encountering strong winds and huge waves, and then even more bizarre things appeared.
The man on the third floor began to petrify into wood, and in a blink of an eye, he turned into a lifelike wooden figure, like a sculpture.
It wasn't over yet; his own petrification began to spread, quickly eroding the ship's hull and rapidly diffusing outwards.
An ultra-modern steel giant ship thus strangely transformed into a decaying wooden hull.
Boom!
The ceiling above the dance floor suddenly collapsed, crushing some people who hadn't managed to escape below.
And although Bai Cheng and the two others were standing at the very edge, they still didn't escape.
It was an entire huge ceiling collapse; everyone still standing in this indoor plaza could not be spared.
But Bai Cheng was not flustered at all, because she had already confirmed that everything in front of her was an illusion.
A large amount of smoke and dust filled the air, instantly engulfing the scene before Bai Cheng's eyes.
The surroundings plunged into darkness again; sure enough, everything returned to its previous state.
Bai Cheng suddenly found that she could move, and her flashlight was still in her hand, emitting beams of white light.
"What's going on?" Bai Cheng looked around and was startled to find that one of the ten wooden figures that had originally stood in the third-floor corridor and looked down was missing.
"Could it be ten chances for us?" Leng Ningxue guessed.
"We were all crushed by the ceiling just now, so does that mean we've already died once?"
But Yu Nian immediately retorted: "But we can't do anything, can we?"
Indeed, it wouldn't make sense for them to lose opportunities for no reason, would it?
Bai Cheng frowned: "Could it be because of the switch we just touched?"
"Possibly."
Without knowing the rules inside this ship, they had to slowly figure everything out themselves.
"We still can't be sure if those ten wooden figures represent our ten chances... But in any case, it's best not to mess with anything on the ship until we figure out the rules."
The three quickly reached an agreement; they decided to start searching the rooms around the dance floor, trying to find useful information.
"Let's go."
Bai Cheng took the lead, flashlight in hand, walking at the very front.
This ship was larger than they had imagined, with many rooms around, and if they didn't explore quickly, six hours might not be enough.
Ahead was a slightly upward staircase that would allow them to smoothly reach the first floor from this sunken room.
But the staircase, though clearly not long, seemed endless and led nowhere.
Seeing this, Bai Cheng's face immediately darkened: "Damn it!"
But when she turned around, she found that Yu Nian and Leng Ningxue had already vanished from their original spots at some unknown time.
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